Gloria Heffernan’s upcoming poetry collection, What the Gratitude List Said to the Bucket List, will be published by New York Quarterly Books in 2019. Her chapbook, Some of Our Parts, was published by Finishing Line Press. In addition, her work has appeared in over fifty journals including Chautauqua Literary Journal, Stone Canoe, Main Street Rag, Columbia Review, Louisville Review, and The Healing Muse. She is an adjunct instructor at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, and holds a Master’s Degree from New York University.